Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pers pn] know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |
| 2 | She thought she knew herself very well , but faced with God she realized that she knew virtually nothing . |
| 3 | I viewed A&R men the same way and when I met them I realised that they knew even less than I thought they knew . |
| 4 | He realised that he knew even less about the father than the son . |
| 5 | ‘ He did n't realize he 'd dropped a brick when he admitted that he knew where we were going . |
| 6 | Okay in Italy on the marble it does work , but on the slate it you know it it has n't worked and I think various quarries have tried it and found out that it does n't work , and yet he assumed that he knew better and you know , little little things like that , you know he just seemed unwilling to learn or lis heed advice . |
| 7 | He told the recruiting officer that he 'd been a sergeant in the Boer War and boasted that he knew more about the Army than all these whipper-snappers who were waiting to join with him . |
| 8 | He replied that he knew damn all about it but would swear it was . |
| 9 | She replied that she knew where he was but she did n't want to discuss it . |
| 10 | Not necessarily : ‘ I do n't think I meant that even the people who have no caveats attached implied that they knew absolutely everything in the box . |
| 11 | While the DUC itself had amassed information and expertise by now to undertake this study itself , it realized that the report would have to be produced from outside the community if it was to have legitimacy or to be seen in any way as neutral : ‘ We in the Committee felt that we knew enough to write the report ourselves but we also felt that it would n't be acceptable to the County Council so we had to get somebody else to do it ’ . |
| 12 | By the time Louise returned to the kitchen to tell him that his mother was ready to go home Constance felt that he knew absolutely everything about her , but had revealed nothing of himself . |
| 13 | Rick felt that he knew very little about practical mathematics apart from ‘ making a scale drawing of the minibus and taking kids out to measure the rugby pitch ’ and even less about investigations and problem-solving . |
| 14 | You know he 'd far prefer to have the cheap workforce that you could tell exactly and appear to know what he 's talking about , whereas the older men knew that he knew absolutely nothing . |
| 15 | Lloyd George might think that in beating Wilson over the space requirements of Asiatics in the debate over the Merchant Shipping Act in 1906 he was delivering the working classes from their unworthy prejudices against foreign seamen , but the seamen thought that they knew better . |